Professors: 
• Miguel Sautié Castellano, Prof. Biochemical ., MsC. 
• Carlos Martínez Ortiz, Prof. Microbiology, MsC

Topics:  
• Recognition of patterns by means of suffixestrees . Applications. 
• Alignment Methods. Their utility in genesprediction , modelling proteins structures and construction of phylogenetic trees.

Objectives of the course: 
To analyze and to design algorithms for texts patterns recognitions  and to apply algorithms to concrete problems solution withincomputer biology .

Requirements 
Graduate of any university career of exact, natural or engineering sciences  . Elementary knowledge of Informatics and  Molecular Biology. 

Ground
Bioinformatics is an emergent science still developing that unites knowledge of diverse disciplines as molecular biology, engineering informatics, computer science and mathematics. It has arisen starting from the necessity of analyzing great quantity of biological data that has been accumulating as a result of the vertiginous development, since the end of 1980's until the present time, of sequence technologies, determination of bio-molecules structures, microarrangements, etc. Bioinformatics contains useful tools for illness understanding, diagnostic and even therapy at molecular level. In this sense the cultural formation of professionals linked in a way or another to the medical sciences and, in general to life sciences will have a direct and outstanding repercussion in the development of these disciplines in Cuba. 

  Student  maximum number: 15

Bibliography
• ‘Structures of String Matching and Data Compression’  NJ Larsson
• ‘Algorithms on strings, Trees and Sequences. Computer Science and Computational Biology.’  Dan Gusfield.
• ‘Handbook of Exact String-Matching Algorithms.’  C.Charras, T.Lecroq.
• ‘Biological sequence analysis. Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids’ R.Durbin AR Eddy A.Krogh G Mitchison
• ‘Introduction to computational biology’ MS Waterman
• ‘Molecular Evolutionary Genetics’ Masatoshi Nei
• ‘Structural Bioinformatics’ Ed. Philip E. Bourne, Helge Weissig
• ‘Data structures and algorithms’ Alfred Aho, Murray Hill, JE Hopcroft, J Ullman

Location: Center of  Cybernetics Applied to Medicine.  Avenue 146 No. 2511. Cubanacán (in front of Girón) Playa. City of Havana

Date: February 12th, 2007

Hours: 9:00AM a 2:00PM

Registration 
The registration application will be made through electronic mail to: Ileana Armenteros Vera  who should confirm the registration keeping in mind the number of participants settled by the professors of each course. 
The inscription fee will be of 20 Cuban pesos for the Cubans and 20 CUC for foreigners.  
The payment will be made once you receive by mail electronic the confirmation that you have been registered in the course.  
Date of payment: Monday,February  5th to Friday, February 9th,

Hours:  9:30pm to 1:00pm. 
Place: Infomed, calle 27 No. 110 / M and N, Vedado. 
Departmento de Docencia